> "Transformations"? You don't hear ANY theme in there that isn't
> played EXACTLY the same way it was originally introduced.
> As some reviewer mentioned, maybe it even was Clem, stacking a theme on
> top of another doesn't pass as thematic development.

Actually, outside of the jack's action theme, past that point in the cue I'll contend that none of the theme are introduced exactly the same way. We go from the main theme weaving into the action theme from the first film (though certainly the best version this time, done in a different cadence and with a much fuller brass section) to the first variation on the Hoist the Colours theme that instead of fully rounding out plays the end of the main theme, then falls into the first film's action theme again before the love theme. These themes are certainly not "stacked"...in this track, they flow, and they flow wonderfully.

> The word here is "symmetry". Music, and orchestration especially
> I think, live from contrasts, and that's what Zimmer lacks completely. The
> music doesn't even try to be unpredictable and surprising.

Didn't the plethora of woodwinds kind of surprise you? I was not ready for an oboe solo.

> By the way, could it be that the little box you have to check in order to
> post, the one that says "Mandatory, check this box to recognise that
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> the discussions to Zimmer scores?

Well, that's what happens when the moderator has an anti-zimmer cloud about him.